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@uiten taies @anni @ffice OSKER vs'. PERKINS AND JOHN R. RICHARDS, OFMOUNT JOY, PENNSYL- VANIA, AssIGNORs TO THEMsELvEs AND JOSEPH H..IFERGIIsONL Letters, Paten: No.' 79,593, ma Juzg 7, 1868.

IMPnovBD eternas-LINE HOLDER. f

TO ALL WHOM IT'MAY CONCERN:

Be itknown that we, OsKER S.. PERKINS and JOHN R. RICHARDS, of Mount'Joy, in the county of Lancaster, and Stateof Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful ClothesLine-Holding Device; and Vwe do hereby declarethat the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being hadto the annexed drawing, and to letters of referencebeing marked thereon, making va part of this specification, invvhich-Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the line-holders as they appear whenplaced on-posts or trees, with one section of the line stretched;

l Figure 2 is a pulley-wheel, four sections of th'e rim formed intohooks.

Figure Slis an eccentric.

Fig-ure 4 are woodscrews. v

The object Of this invention is forthe stretching and holding of aclothes-line. The pulley-wheel A A A,

having the rim D, lig. 2, formed into hooks, by taking circular orangular sections E E from it, with counter-sunk screw-hole through itscentre; the eccentric B B B having two-thirds of its tread notched7 theoppositc'side having one-half its'tbickness sloped o, and countersunkscrenh'oleF. The pulley-Wheel AA A may be screwed to a post or tree bywood-screw C. The eccentric, B, Ais placed in a perpendicular line abovethe pulley with wood-screw: C, tl1`e two being brought together,touching eachother.

The eccentric being raised, the line placed in is fastened at the pointof beginning, pnssedover the pulley on the next post or tree, andleaving the line slack, so that it may be easily reached and filled withclothes. It v can then be drawn up at either` end tight. PThis completesone section. The line may now be carried to a right or acute angle overthe face of the pulleyz as desired by the operator, the hooks of theriin accommodating in any direction, and keeping the line from raisingthe eccentric and slipping o' the pulley, as shown, -when the second andcontinuing angles are run from one point to another, Whatever thesituations o f objects may be in the yard on which the fasteners areplaced. p

What we claim, and desire to secure by ,Let-ters Patent, is

1. A pulley-wheel, with hooks formed of its cuter ri-m, or equivalent,in the manner shown, and for the purpose specified. -f

2. A hooked pulley-wheel, all combined and arranged in the manner shownand specied, and for-the pur- I pos set forth.

p. v OSKER S. PERKINS,

JOHN R. RICHARDS.

Witnesses C. H. COLBORN, JOHN HEPBURN.

